The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-04

lOWDA. 1LeU q low TOdT WAS ledTU
accompanied by a stiff breeze" an
then followed by a VIOLENT oscillation
Ct the earth, which lasted 80 seconds
and awoke nearly the whole popula
ton. "Houses swayed as If they wer
ships at sea, and persons rising from
their beds were in many cases thrown
with force to the floor. Bells werl
rung in the hotels, and everywher,
doors were forced open. Then cam
still another oscillation of much VIC
lence, proceeding from north to south
During this shock crockery was thrown
down and pictures demolished in sew
eral houses. Then followed a scene O
general confusion, dogs barking ant
horses neighlng and stamping in theil
stables. Thousands of persons dressed
themselves and did not go to bee
again." Reports received on the 29tf
do not show any fatalities as the result
OF the earthquake. AT the School OF
Mines, Secretary Ugdlde reports that
the self-registeriDg seismic instru.
ments showed that a heavy shock had
taken place.
Clarence House, aged 20 years.
Herbert Jones, aged 81, and Estella
Cole, aged 16, were drowned while
boating in the river at Utica, New
York, on the afternoon of the Goth.
Charles II. Move and Joseph Reich
Der were drowned on the goth while
boating on the canal near indianapolis.
The Corener's jury in the case of
the disaster on the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad nea K~ittanlng Point, has
rendered a verdict that it was una.
voidable, and the company is not to
blame.
The house of DR.. De Croft, in
Hoboken, New Jersey, was entered
by burglars on the evening of the
18th and robbed of $500 In money,
$2700 in Adams Express bonds and
$500 in sllverware.
"A Gre in Brooklyn, on the evening
of the 29th, destroyed the cooperage
works of L. M. Palmer, a freight
house of the Erie Railroad, and some
smaller buildings. The losses are $780,.
600, of which $3.50 900 falls on the
cooperage. A fireman had three ribs
broken by a falling wall.
-Celestin Vezeau, his son Charles.
Joseph Robindoux, Wilfred Herrieux,
Phileas Vanier and Nelson Montreauil,
went in a row boat from Montreal to
Nuns Island on the evening of the
28.h. They spent the night III drink
ing, aud, ON trying to get back to the
city early on the morning of the Doth,
the boat capsized and all except Mon
treauil were drowned.
The official list of victims of the
disaster on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
at Horseshoe Bend on the 9th, shows
six killed and eight injured. By the
disaster on the Lake Complain Rail-
road, on the 9th. the fireman, Tatrow,
was killed, and the engineer, Chappell,
so badly injured that he died in a few
hours. Another train hand had an
ankle fractured. Matthias Schultz,
aged 80 years, a brakeman on the Read
ing Railroad, was run over at Locust
dale on the 2Sth and SO badly injured
that he died a few hours later.
Richard Williams attempted to
jump on a passenger train while 1t
was crossing the railroad bridge over
the James river at Richmond, Wiz.
GINA, on the Both ult, He missed bis
footing and fell to the falls, 90 feet
lie struck the water feet first,
and escaped with a broken collar bone
and several severe bruises.
The largest tobacco warehouse in
Wisconsin, at Stoughton, was damaged
by fire on the goth ult., 10 the extent
of Sl00, 600. The old Cont Veranda
Hotel and several adjoining buildings
in New Orleans were burned on the
morning of the Doth ult. Loss, $780,
200. A fire in Savannah, Georgia, on
the evening of the Both ult., destroyed
David Weisbein's large retail store,
and E. Lowell y Sons large wholesale
hardware house. Two other stores
damaged. The total loss is estI-
mated ut $l25,o00 insurance, $4,000.
Tho boiler of an elevator in Hunt
West Virginia, exploded on
the morning of the Both ut, COM
wrecklng the structure, and
t. III. Reese, John Kelly and
h. Albertson. A man named John
Perry is missing. About fifteen others
were injured, three of them severely.
''The engine was n of an old locomo-
tive boiler that had been condemned
the Chesapeake and Ohio Road,
and the engineer wac inexperienced.
The boiler In the Hitchcock MaGurac-
Company's works at Cortland,
near Syracuse, New York. bursted on
,he morning of the 3Qth ult. demolish-
ng the engine-room and part of the
shop. The body OF Ii. A.
Webster was taken from the ruins.
Four other men were dangerously In
ured, one of whom, Frank Scott, is not
expected to recover.
"A. G. Hill, book agent for a
firm, called at the house of
Mr. Terri, fifteen miles east of Cor
iicanna, Texas, on the 2Sth ult., and,
no nj in the place but Terrl's
laughter, grossly insulted her. She
ordered him away, and, going to a
ieid, informed her father. The old
nan followed the agent with 3 gun, /!
IND, o~vertaking him at a neighboring J
arm, shot and wounded him so sadly |
fuNS uO NiC0 III a Lew hOQlSs NIiildll
Il. Carroll. proprietor of a notorious |
'esort in Wilmington, Delaware, known
IS the Casino. was shot and, perhaps,
iatally wounded on the morning of the |
10Th u,t., by Robert Frankfort, bar.
ender in an adjoining hotel. Carroll
vas the aggressor. He sought ven
'eance on Frankford. against whom
le had q arudge.
"A severe earthquake shook No
,ales, Arizona, at l O'Clock on the af.
ernoon of the Both ult., and ten
minutes afterwards alighter shock was
cit. No damage was done. On the
of the 10Th ult., a violent ''dry
'yclone" visited Nogales, demolishiug
many huts and unroofpg larger build
ngs. Up to 10 o'clock on the morn
ng of the 30th ult., no more earth
Iuake shocks were experienced in the
lily of Mexico. Durlng the night a
leavy rain fell, cooling the weather.
,ome OF the more lightly constructed
modern buildings are badly cracked, |
md it is feared the roofs of many of the
'lder mes are in a dangerous condition.